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Fashion Notes.

The belted round waist is seen on some
French costumes.
Figured and plain velvet are combined
in some dressy costumes.
Poplin is an old-fashioned material oil
which the use is predicted.
Fine qualities of cachemire furnish a
favorite material for dressy toilets.
Cape coats of checked or plated ma
terial provide popular wear for misses.
Clinging tea gowns Of China crepes
and lace net are the most stylish for this
season.
Sicilienne is the only silk material used
by Parisian dressmakers for children's
dresses.
New passementeries and gimpS have
black grounds, covered with golc em'
broidery.
Tiger plush is On effective novelty,
showing tiger lines or stripes on plain
plush ground.
Three yards and half is popular
length for the round boas OF long, fluffy
fur now fashionable.
| Watered and brocaded silks are now
seen in old time style, as elegant as those
oil our grandmothers.
Yellow and white is one of this sea.
sons combinations which is much ad-
mired, although it is not a new one.
Some New English sholt jackets are
covered all over with satin-stitch EN-.
broidery in quiet. unobtrusive patterns.
Boas for little girls are of white
crinkled mandarin lamb, white fox and
chinchilla, and they have tiny muffs to
match.
The redingote is in high favor. It can
easily be remodeled for street or house
dress, thereby proving most economi,
cal garment.
Embroidered gauze is superseding
black lace for many uses. 1t is shown IN
all colors, in graduated designs for diff
fcrent parts of the dress.
The revival of bas9ues of velvet is a
welcome one. They are not only hand
some. but used to replace worn corsage
make many half worn suit as good as
| new.
Velvet plaids IN shades of red, blue
and green are shown. They are in
tendrd to be used in combination with
plain wooden goods, as panels, trim
mirgs, etc.
The made bow still takes precedence
of tied strings for bonnets. The bow is
slightly wider and larger than hereto ore.
I'll d bonnet strings are represented by
two sets of inch-wide ribbon, velvet anu
faille.
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of her line collie dogs, and in taking
long drives to places of interest and beau
ty in the neighborhood, and frequently
honoring some of the neighboring gentry
with visit The Queen also visits a
great deal in the homes of the cotters, in
many of which there are tokens in the
shape of photographs, pictures, books
and other valuable presents of her
Majesty's affection and regard for her
humble subjects and friends. 1t is most
touching to hear them speak of the
Queens kindness, and the interest they
take in all the members of the royal
family is very great, and almost init
mately personal in its character. She
frequently shares in their domestic joys
by attending in their homes the ''kirst-
min" (Christeningl of a baby, and in
their sorrows by being present at the
short religious service performed by the
minister on the occasion of funeral.
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A Clever Business Woman.

Riding with me through thriving
Maine town, recently, friend indicated
q large tannery and remarked: That
est ,blishment has an entertaining story.
Its founder built up large business and
willed it to his daughter, instructing his
executors to permit her to manage the
bus ness herself. The neighbors pre-
dictcd collapse of the concern; but the
girl proved to be even better business
man than her father, and cleared 81,
the first year. She ran it several years
and then minister settl' d in town, who
took to her. The taking was mu1ual.
He married her, left the ministry. IS now
running the tannery with his wife's help
snd drives the fanciest team in town.
Leuiston (Me.) Journal.
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A Ghastly Table,

Probably the most horrible and gnast-
ly piece of furniture ever conceived is a
table in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence,
Italy, the work of Guiseppi Sagatti, who
was several years engaged in its construc-
tion. The material was drawn from
about a hundred human corpses, and the
table consists of a circular top resting
upon pedestal with four supports rep
resenting claws. The face of the table
is about three feet in diameter, and ap-
pears to be a fantastic but artistic work
in marble, though, in reality, it is COM
posed of the hearts, livers. muscles, and
intestines of the human body. The weird
craftsman who originated this singular
years, and his work was completed half
century ago, the last corner of the ta-
bic, committing suicide over it before it
was secured for the Palazzo Pitt.
Sagatti spent several years in perfect
ing q system of petrifaction and sue
ceeded in discovering process whereby
natural animal reaction in corpse after
death could be changed to mineral re-
action by first securing immunity from
decay by an embalming process, and af-
terward immersing the body ia bath
where it absorbed silici particles. For
the purpose of practical illustration OF
the method and its results, he set about
making the table. The corpses neces-
sary for the purpose were obtained from
the hospitals. The intestines were used
in the construction of the ornamental
pedestal, and, having been pressed into
shape, were pctrified. The claws of the
table were formed from the hearts, liv-
ers and lungs, which still retain the ap-
pearance of live flesh. The leaf of the
tsble was composed of the larger
muscles of the body artistically ar:
ranged to ether to form the desired
effect. The table was intended to
be highly ornamental, and though
nothing was to be used in its construc-
tion but parts of the human body, the
mind that first conceived it was not at a
loss to find means of ormentation. A hun
dred pairs of eyes or more, and as many
pairs of ears, were petriied and artistic
ally arranged around the edges. The
effect was the most blood -curdling that
could be imagined. The process sue
cecueQ IN preserving tue eyepuiis III tHeit
natural state, so that after polishing they
retained their color and ante-mortem ap-
pearance with an intensified brilliance.
This completed the task of the savant.
He was proud of the result of his labors.
The test of his process of petrifaction
was ninently successful. He commu-
nicated his method to the medical world,
but naturally it never became generally
adopted, though it was we'll understood
by surgeons AID physicians Buffalo
Cenaentarian.
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A Queer Superstition.

Perhaps the strapgest fad that any
has in this town, says "Halston " in the
New York Times, is that of cashier in
down town bank, who every night at ~
o'clocks walks up Fifth avenue to Forty
third street for the purpose of seeing
whether or not etrtain millionalre's
front door has Grape tied on it. For
four years he has made this nightly jour
ney. He doesn't know the millionaire.
He doesn't know any reason why the
millionare's death should he imm nent.
Yet he has superstition that when he
discovers the Grape he looks for. on that
same night some great good fortune is to
fall TO mis- own lot. He has triea to
shake Of the feeling that seAds him on u,
this nightly walking tour: 1t won't
sh Ike. And, rain or shine, he goes re,
ligiously up and down the avenue at 10
o'clock every night.
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Why He Failed.

sT can't see," said the fat man with
the red necktie, chow you could possibly
have fai ed; you say you gave q man
$4,000 to buy beans with2"
eyes"
"And told him what prices to pay2"
eyes,
"Well, as beans didn't 60 down any,
how could you lose2"
"Easy as grease. BE took my cash
and skipped"
"Oh."- WaU Street Neaos.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Hymn for 22d December. &
AUTHOR UsKxowH. y
-. Tune. Ldfon&) ~ s.i.

Hymn for 22d December.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN.
=. Tune: Lyona)
A rock in the wilderness welcomed our dres5
From bandage FAR over the dark rolling
sea; -, y -s:!Is.5 & e 9 " . IL
On that holy altar they kindled the fires
Jehovah, which glow In our boeoms Tor
Thee! i93s5 5. iissS
Thy blessings descended in sunshine and
shower, ~, y.
Or rose from the soil that was sown BY B
Thy hand; VI ;ss 8
The mountain and valley rejoiced In Thy
power,
And Heaven encircled and smiled on the
land. s... 9
The Pilgrims of old an example have given
OF mild resignation, devotion and love,
Which beams like the star in the blue vault
Of heaven, g -
A beacon-light hung IN the mansions
above. = q ., & I ss5 s 4
In church and cathedral we kneel IN ourZi
prayer, y .SegE 3
Their temple and chape, were valley nnd
hill; .
But God Is the same in the aisle, or ths air, !.
And he Is the Rock that we lean unon
still. + 3; 4 Fl g3s ~: ~:
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Always Dry.

(Which is the better weather for
your business" was question put to a
down. town bartender, "hot or coldt"
"It doesn't make mnch difference" !"
he replied. "In hot weather they take
a little something to cool 'em off, and in
cold weather they take little something
to warm 'em up."-Drake's Magazine.
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The saloon-keepers and liquor-dealers,
the country over, says the Democrat, are
making party fealty entirely subservient
to their Infamous business interests; and
this is the step which is certain to seal
their doom. ~.
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The Princess of Wales has become pa
troness Of the Scandinavian Sailors Tenn
pcrance Home, and has given $3.50 to-
ward the erection of new building for
tnat institution.
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Tha Hsrdest Baftle. !

A brave officer who had led hts
conquering command in the s'march to
the sea-" was in our inquiry meeting re-
Gently, greatly troubled. "oh, he said, !
the peril and strain Of the battlefield i
though endured for days and years to-
gether, never troubled me as I am strout
bled now. This battle with sin 4 and
self is the hardest one have ever had 3tol
fight. never surrendered in that long;
conflict. And now you ask me to sur
render Internationally. It is so hard. = =.
And the last we heard of the brave sols;
dier he was still 'holding outn againss
thy love of God. How much nobler TO-
have surrendered at once and uncon5
ditionally to such leader as Jesus, the
Captain general of our salyations 81
- sGF' " D. 3. B. 10
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOX
FEMININE READERS.
The Rig Hat.

A pretty little bonnet
Is deserving of a sonnet,
For pretty face within it is vision OF de-
light,
But hat of seven stories,
Though bedecked with floral glories
And with feathers and with ribbons, makes
agirl a perfect fright
Boston Courier.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
JANUARY 8.
Subject: "Sin and Death."-Gen. i'll:
1-6, 1919,

GOLDEN TEXT: "By one man sin en-
tered into the aUorId and death by sin."-
Rom. v: 12.
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Perm OF Po.tponins salvatton.

reading an interesting paper. HIS ia'alea tatner
sat at desk opposite, busily engaged IN
writing. my son, want you 70 go 60
down to the post-ofice for me. 80
father! not now, I am busy reading.
His father made no reply then, but a q
few moments, when his mother and SIS
ter came in a carriage to the dooE, as
James was about to step in after his
father, the latter replied, "Not a'ov, my
son; you may finish your reading" 7
This little incident brought to my re-1
membrance picture which I had seen
in my early childhood, which made q
lasting impression on my mind. The
artist represented an old man climbing
on chair, and endeavoring to reach as 4
book from high shelf. But before the
desired object is attained the old man. nan.
sinks down overcome with exertion. /
His history has often been written. In
his youth kind friends and the voice OF
conscience urged him to read his Bible,
but his answer was, Not nou. On enter
ing manhood it received the reply ~
nov. At last old age and disease over
took him, poverty and afaiction Visited
him, and his former numerous friends
deserted him. And now, when all else
has failed, he remembers his long re-:
elected Bible, and goes to look for it TO-!
see if it will afford any comfort. He
climbs to get it, and as lc has q hand
almost upon it he hears a voice, the
awful voice of death, saying. Not nosc. $;
GLOW eftsn would I have gathered
thy children together, as hen doth
gather her brood under her wings, and
ye would notl-Presbyterian.
a young man whose heart was warm
with the love of Christ was very desir-
Gus to be useful. He went to his pastor,
told him what he felt, and asked iu|
what way he thought he might be em-
ployed. He told him he thought he
might be useful among tho young. On
his suggestion he set to work in prayer
and dependence on the Holy Spirit, and
the result was that in short time four
young persons were led to the Saviour.
A pious Christian woman for many years
was always seen in her place in the house
of God on the Sabbath. As she watched
the people coming in, she saw many
among them who were unconvertcd, for
whom she prayed. A short time before
her death, she stated that she had lived
to see twenty persons for whom she had
prayed brought to Jesus and members :
of the church. She was truly mother
in Israel. REQ. a. Ballsrg. ~. s.
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The President Proud of His Wife.

Mrs. Cleveland is great favorite with
q number of statesmen and prominent
men who visit the White House. The
President always likes to hear her beauty
spoken of and takes great delight in
commenting omit. A few days ago, be-
fore the President was taken ill, proml-
nent citi7ent of North Carolina and one
from Georgia called to pay an evening
visit at the White House. Soon after
they arrived the North Carollnian re-
marked to Mrs. Cleveland: Il saw you
on the avenue to-day in the carriage
eyes," replied Mrs. Cleveland, 81
saw you, too, and I bowed to you" $50
did l." said the President, "but you did
not see me-"
"Were you in the carriage, too2'
asked the Southerner.
"Yes," replied the President, sT was
sitting back, but saw that you only had
an eye for pretty girls" and he gave an
ain't-you-sweet look at his wife, and all
the party laughed. Washington Letter..
The Suuare-Shouldered Woman.
p There is some excuse for the hustle.
It is rational. It's office is to assist ma
ture in presenting the female figure with
most attractive outline. Both the hustle
and the corset have their origin in appre-
ciation of the form divine and knowl-
edge of its perfections. When mod
crate they are defensible, almost indis-
pensable. They are in certain sense
artistic, in that they fortify certain lines
without which the form is anything but
beautiful. But there is no excuse for the
jackets, now unfortunately becoming
fashionable, whi h either square the
shoulders of the wearer, or place ridge
an inch or two high just at the extremity
of either shoulder blade. These jackets,
or whatever they may be, are unnatural,
ugly. Nothing can be said in their de-
tense. They did not have their begin
ming in purpose to assist the develop
ment of the lines of the form on natures
model. No woman not a monstrosity
ever grew hummocks on her shoulders.
The square shouldered woman is not the
ideal of art. Think OF O Venus, or
Madonna, or q Greek Slave with square
shoulders and a little transverse ridge or
thick. high seam Just over the base of
each arml Square shoulders are mascu-
line, and a woman so unfortunate rs to
possess masculine shoulders could be
pardoned for indulgence in dress devices
which would give her at least the ap-
pearan, of possessing the gentle slopes
and curves with which nature endowed
the fairest of all her creatures. Her de-
ceit would be forgiven in appreciation OF
art. But what should be said to the
hundreds of young women in Chicago
actually possessing fine, sloping, rounded
shoulders, who ignorantly square them
off as with carpenters tool, and nail
stiff humps upon the extremities. CHI
cago Herald.
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Opportunities.

y ~
Opportunities are what we make them.
To the sure-footed they are stepping
stones to success, but stumbling blocks
to the weak and careless. A. mans Wis
dom is shown by the way he uses them;
and the measure of our life is not acy;
cording to the number of our days, but
according to the use we make Of our.:
opportunities. They make the staircase
of life, and conscientious use Of the;
passing chances brings Others within our:
reach. The idlest man in the world e
he who waits for the brook to run dry
instead of using the stones in its bee. !.
Life is straight line. Thesame oppors
tunities never come twice, and the
wealthiest man in the world cannot sf-
ford to squander them. They are. price cs.I
less gifts from God. As the key fits tho
wards of the lock, so our opportunitiesf
are adapted to our lives. The breezs
never fills a, furled sail, and he who Eia'.s
would win success must have every
inch of canvas spread. - 0bristiaa .ossrs
nal ~. c b :. asJ
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The Duke Of Westminster has accepted
the Presidency of the London Temper
ance Hospital.
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he had done, Judgment was pronounced on
the serpent first. V. IA. The instrument
ofthis great erit must tell of its greatneSs
to all coming time. For even in the Mil
lennial day, it is written, land dust shall be
the serpent's meat" Is. lxv.: rs. Then fol-
lows the sentence upon Eve, coupled with
the gracious promise concerning the woman'S
seei: and in that on Adam, he is rebuked
for hardening to the voice OF his wife, I. e.,
for li,tening to 10 before the Lords COM
mand. 1t then includes two things. !. e.:
l. The curse on the ground; and
.. His own doom Of labor.
The earth was ma1e for man, and there
fore must respond to his condition. Was he
sinless? 1t was glorious IN its gifts: Did he
fall 1t shared his low estate Will he be
sinless aga;n' 1t shall regain its first con-
dition. And so. for mans sake, the curse
came down upon the earth. its fertility was
taken awav. and "n SorroW" he should eat
thereof a. his days:-in sorrom, for the re-
mcmtrance Of the past, and for his expert
cn:e in the present Henceforth its volun-
tarv offerings to him should be thorns and
thistles, the emblems Of the curse every
where; and when Jesus was crowned with
thorns, what was it showing. but that the
curse Of the law which we had broken, was
composing Him round it. He was crowned
with it. II set Him apart as q crott1s does
King. He wore it In the royalty Of His love.
And with this curse Of barrenness on the
earth came his own doom Of labor. From
that hour man has eaten bread in the sweat
OF his brow. The nec,Ssity of labor is upon
him everywhere. And, under the circum-
stan es that surround him, although a re-
minder of his fall, it has proved a source
of blessing. 1t is Just one characteristic OF
our race. And is there no escape from it:
Nome! It's only limit is, "7iU thou return to
the ground" ct. And so the divine reading
of the great problem Of sin and labor and
death is " "Byone man sin entered into the
world. and death by sin; and so death passed
upon all men, for that dH have sinned.-
Philadelphia Lesson Helper.
The Duke Of Westminster has accepted
the Presidency of the London Temper
ance Hospital.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-08
A THIRTY FOOC SNAKE.
The Black and yellow Monster Seen in an
Upper Delaware River Pond.
Monticello Watchman.

On Saturday last as Charles Lace and
Algernon r. Thomas, two Pennsylvanians,
were fishing for pickerel on the Wolf
pond they perceived q peculiar looking
object short distance from their boat
1t appeared to be the head and neck of O
gigantic snake fish, long and pointed like
a pixies at the mouth and increasing IN
width until it appeared to oe six or eight
inches wide between the eyes. Lsce took
up heavy pole which was in the boat
and succeeded in striking the reptile.
The instant the blow was given the mon
ster plunged his head under water and
raised it's body above, thro wing it on the
end Of the boat. 1t was quickly drawn
over aud across the boat, nearly
capsizipg it II it5 passage The
object then disappeared under water
The head was of notified green and
looked something like the she'll OF tur-
tie. It's body was black, encircled with
rings OF a dirty yellow coler. The men
aver that it's length was fully thirty feet,
as the head Was about twelve feet from
the boat when they made the attack upon
it, and in drawing its body over the boat
it displayed at least twenty feet. It sp-
peRred TO be about six inches in diameter
Both men were arr ed with revOlvers,
which they discharged repeatedly at the
place where the reptile disappeared from
view, but Without making il show itself
They were considerably frightened ard
left he place, flushing their fishing for
the dey on the Yankee Pond, which is q
short distance east of the Wolf Pond,
and is located in the adjoining town of
MamskatiDg.
The pond covers several hundred sores
and in some places is thirty feet deep.
There is 4 tradition that many yesrs ago,
before the canal company built dam to
increase TIE capacity of the reservoir at
this place, q similar monster existed in
the small pond which was the nucleus OF
the present reservoir. 1t may be that
that this is q specimen Of the reptllian
age, enc that other and mum rous repre-
entatives Of the Jurassic period are still
in existence in the bodies Of fresh water
on the globe.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-08
WORSE THAN A VOLCANO.
Undermined with Gas-Ths Insidious
Natural Fluid Filling the Csllars and a
Spark May Blow Up tho Town.

Undermined with Gas-The InsidIous
Natural + .uid Filling tho Oellars and a
Spark May Blow Up tho Town.
EAST LIVERPOOL, ONO, Nov. S.-Con-
siderable excitement has been caused
here, and not little alarm is felt, over
the discovery that the city is vertically
undermined with natural gas. In fact,
most Of the people here are not aware
what extreme cause for fear there is, but
gas officials shake their heads and en-
deavor to hush the matter up as much as
possible. Recently several stores were
blown up at New Lisbon, the cause be-
ing natural gas leak in the cellar. There
only few cubic feet of gas was confined.
According to what can be learned here
thousands, perhaps millions, of cubic feet
have escaped and is lying compressed
along gas main tunnels and in cavities. In
fact, East Liverpool is tonight lying over
dormant crater that requires but spark
to become terrible explosion, and this
has been the case for several days, and it
is miracle that nothing disastrous has
occurred so far.
This condition of affairs has either been
caused by extreme negligence or by a
devilish design Of some one who had 8
grudge against gas company. The first
company to lay mains in East Liverpool
was the Hill & Kelly. Then in success
sion came the Ohio Valley aud the Bridge
water. In digging their trenches the two
latter companies undermined the pipes OF
Hill & Kelly, but this did not matter, as
the gas was poor, and the Bridgewater
consolidated with them, supplying their
customers, and the Hill & Kelly pipes
were abandoned. The undermining OF
these msins caused them to sink and snap
IN several places.
few days since sn odor of natural